Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.